The Britain’s Got Talent judge went on to share a number of anecdotes which were all classic Dale.

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Firstly he tweeted: ‘One night Dale & I were going out to dinner & he stopped off on the way to buy diet lemonade from a corner shop. He was in there about 20 minutes. When he finally got back in the car I asked “what took you so long?” & he said “sorry David I am very big with the Indian community!”‘

Next, David wrote: ‘One afternoon Dale & I were out shopping & some policeman were standing on the street corner. He gave them a huge wave & called out “hello loves, hello darlings!” I asked why he was saying hello. He replied “always wave at policemen David. You never know when you might need one!”‘

He then joked about Dale’s take on romance, writing: ‘Dale’s ideal man was Omid Djalili’; and ‘One night Dale was driving me home from dinner when a big group of lads from Newcastle on a stag night saw him & shouted “Dale!” Dale turned to me & said “it is such a shame you are here or I would have them all straight back at my house with their trousers around their ankles!”‘

Walliams went on to share pictures with his friend – posting a picture of Winton hanging shirtless out of a window, posing a convertible sports car wearing a neon yellow shirt, and a selfie of the pair of them, which David also made his cover photo on Twitter.

David’s followers thanked him for sharing his memories, with a reply to one of the photos reading: ‘A fabulous picture of a fabulous man.’

He said: ‘I was as shocked as everybody else to hear the news that Dale had passed on. Strangely enough, we were only talking about it a while ago, he didn’t like the ageing process, he hated it. He used to say to me “I’ve had enough”. And I used to say “oh, you’ve got loads of things”.

‘Just when you think someone’s got everything, deep down inside, maybe they don’t have everything.’

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